Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.8 vs Gemma 7B

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic

60.7

Rank #13 Confirmed

Gemma 7B Google

30.0

Rank #299 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher in 8 categories and Gemma 7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 4.8 leads 78.4 to 31.2.
  • Gemma 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.8 and Gemma 7B specifications
Claude Opus 4.8Gemma 7B
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index60.730.0
Released2026-05-282024-02-21
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6527

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 59.9 (#12), Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemma 7B
LMArena Coding14901048
DeepSWE59%—
FrontierCode46.5%—
LMArena WebDev1556—
SciCode53.5%—
GSO47.1%—
WeirdML82.9%—
ALE-Bench1,564—
HumanEval+—28.7%
MBPP+—43.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 47.6 (#11), Gemma 7B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemma 7B
APEX-Agents48.9%—
OSWorld 2.020.6%—
Remote Labor Index8.3%—
τ²-bench Banking39.7%—
DeepResearch Bench50.2%—
PostTrainBench33.8%—
GBAEval70.9%—
GDP.pdf24%—
LMArena Search1204—
Vending-Bench 25,787—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 64.7 (#16), Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemma 7B
LMArena Hard Prompts14821042
Epoch Capabilities Index158.21111.99
ARC-AGI-272.1%—
SimpleBench64.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark88.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)91.1%—
ARC-AGI-192.5%—
CritPt20.9%—
Chess Puzzles34%—
EnigmaEval23.5%—
EBR-Bench28.6%—
Mystery Game Puzzles36%—
DTBench94.9%—
LMCA57.5%—
Surface Evolver Bench87.5%—
Adversarial NLI—48.7%
Bench to the Future 30.14—
BIG-Bench Hard—55.1%
ForecastBench59.9—
HellaSwag—82.2%
PIQA—81.2%
WinoGrande—79%

Math Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 78.4 (#13), Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 61.3 (#29), Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemma 7B
LMArena Expert15021001
GPQA Diamond91%—
SimpleQA Verified53%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.3%
BoolQ—83.2%
MMLU—66.1%
OpenBookQA—78.6%
TriviaQA—72.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 42.9 (#26), Gemma 7B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemma 7B
LMArena Vision1294—
Blueprint-Bench 214.5%—
Furniture Assembly42.5%—
LMArena Document1475—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 55.2 (#33), Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemma 7B
LMArena Non-English1450999
LMArena Chinese15071035
LMArena French14811025
LMArena Russian1474993
LMArena German1472—
LMArena Japanese1440—
LMArena Korean1432—
LMArena Spanish1466—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 77.4 (#24), Gemma 7B: 51.5 (#295)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemma 7B
LMArena Instruction Following14761017

Long Context Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 45.4 (#35), Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemma 7B
LMArena Longer Query14831022

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 72.0 (#16), Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemma 7B
LMArena Text14611056
LMArena Creative Writing14541024
LMArena Multi-Turn1476963
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1840—
EQ-Bench 41281—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.8 better than Gemma 7B?

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.8 or Gemma 7B better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.9 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.8 and Gemma 7B share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.8 has 65 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 7B has 27.

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